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^^ This!! I watched this video and it completely overhauled my experience with the stock cabs. to answer your actual question though, the Royer 121 ribbon and the SM57 and 7 dynamics are my go-to choices.

I went the home-brew route with an old wah and an old Roto-vibe, couldn't be more pleased. Cost about $20 total and took about an hour to do them both. http://line6.com/support/topic/21821-modding-a-cry-baby-to-make-an-expression-pedal/?do=findComment&comment=169079

So you did, my bad! The part about changing how the Preset button behaved is what jumped out at me and it's what stuck. Sorry for any confusion.

If something like this were to be considered, I think a cleaner implementation might be stepping on the footswitch for the selected snapshot again, in essence turning it "off" and returning to some default set of parameters. For what it's worth, I personally think there are a lot of other things that could use attention before something like this gets to the top of the priority list.

Voted! Thanks for that DI, good to know that definitively.

Do you have any recordings of this noise? I have been fighting what I think is the same thing, only in other amp models. It is faint when clean, but quite present with any level of gain. It sounds to me like "static", some kind of clipping maybe? I go to great lengths to prevent gain from stacking up in a patch, but without any internal metering it's tough to know. I can roll off the guitar volume significantly without eliminating it, so I'm thinkig it's not just that. Are you getting it in other models, and are you getting it with driven tones? I'm getting it with my Strat into the Bassman, with my Les Paul into the JCM800, and with anything into the Stone Age/EH-185. Possibly/probably in others, but those are the ones I've been in lately. I'd been intending to start a thread regarding this when I've got time to capture some audio, but if we're looking at the same thing I'll just add my data to yours.

I think that sounds pretty swell too! Vote it on up! http://line6.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Option-to-assign-Snapshots-to-switches-in-10-Switch-Stomp-Mode/833058-23508

I haven't had any trouble with mine yet, but every time I have to make my way through a bunch of stuff with it I wonder how many "clicks" I have left before it starts acting up. I've actually started doing more of my programming on the computer in large part to spare that switch/dial some wear. Sorry to hear you are having trouble and I'll be following to see how it turns out for you!

Thanks for all of the input (no pun intended... Maybe a little...), much appreciated. I think I'm going to try applying the pad and working with it across the board. I've been putting compressors up front on even my single coil clean tones, this might just be a good thing all around!

I've said before that Pete Thorn could plug into a jar of mayonaise and make it sound phenomenal, that guy is amazing. I've got the Ownhammer Bogner Shiva 2x12 library, but they also have an "Oversized" Bogner 2x12 library. About 600 files each. Which one was Pete using if you can recall?

I've started getting re-acquainted with the stock cabs after stumbling across this video, so your post is pretty timely for me. I'm intrigued by what you've got here and look forward to checking it out tomorrow. Thanks for posting it!

I've got the active CLR cab, it's excellent. I'm quite happy to not have a separate power amp to deal with.

Interesting... and intriguing... I'm using all passives myself, but I have two guitars sporting humbuckers and, while the humbuckers aren't "hot" by my standards (Gibson Classic 57s and 498T/490R), I have a very difficult time controlling them in Helix. They play nicely with the pad. Maybe that will be something to try: turn the pad on and leave it on, see if I like how my single coils play with it? Good observation. Perhaps a Line 6 insider will chime in on where the pad is applied? I'll do some listening/recording and see what I can hear...

Not "What is the input pad FOR", I get that, but "What does it actually DO?" I only want to use it on a couple of patches, but since it's a Global parameter I have to go and manually turn it on when I want it and off when I don't. Which is to say I have to remember to do that. I would like to just build it in to those patches and call it a day. From looking at my raw signal at the input meter on my DAW, it looks like the pad drops the input signal by about 6db. Is there more to it than that or will an eq/gain block set to -6db at the beginning of the chain accomplish the same thing? Thanks! VB

Man did I ever need to hear that today. I woke up with a case of "Bad Ears" or something, couldn't dial in anything, everything sounded awful; despite months of success and mind-blowing tones it only took one bad morning for me to start questioning the apparatus instead of the operator. Had a break, read this, went back to it, stuff is better now. Great read, thanks for taking the time!

Between the dog and the Tucson dust, I definitely give mine a good wiping down every now and again. I've ogled Glenn's screen protectors, but haven't actually gone for it yet. I still have the protective film it came from the factory with on the main screen, maybe I'll pick up Glenn's when it gives up the ghost. I did invest in a cover from Custom Amp Covers after seeing them in a thread here on the forum, it has helped a TON. http://www.ampcovers.org (Please pardon the gratuitous inclusion of a couple of guitars in the shot, I just happen to think that every picture is better when it has a guitar or two in it.... :D )

If I wasn't envious before, I certainly am now! Glad to hear it was a good time

I seem to recall Scott at Helix Channel talking about dialing in that very EQ in one of his videos quite a while back, however I can't recall which one it was in....

I brought up this very thing in that IR Management thread a couple of days ago, having just discovered this functionality myself at that time. If going to a file-name-reference instead of slot-reference sacrificed the ability to switch them like this, then it makes me completely re-think my position on that matter. Hopefully there is a way to satisfy both demands, but for me, if I had to choose, I'd rather deal with the slot-reference headache in order to keep the IR switching. Totally worth it.

Totally! I stumbled on it just recently myself, not sure why it hadn't occurred to me? Multiple 2048 sample IRs! Makes me appreciate the slot-reference IR management system a little more than previously I did...

Sounds like you don't need me to tell you that snapshots are a good fit for this... Outside of that, and without knowing anything else about what you have going on in the patch or how much DSP you have available, I'd probably approach it with two Teemah's, a parallel path and three footswitches. Drag your Teemah's down to the parallel path, use an A/B split, and bring the merge back to right after the split. Assign a footswitch to your A/B and that's your bypass. Assign the bypass status of your Teemah's to another footswitch in opposite states, so that when you hit the footswitch it turns one on and the other off. Set the gain on one of them to 2, assign a footswitch to change the other from 5 to 8. Or whatever works best for how you use them. Pre-snapshots, I used this sort of scheme for running two amps with two sets of parameters each. Sounds clunky but is actually pretty straight forward once you get accustomed to it.

Those are what's on my mind.

I don't use the editor that much, but when I do lock-ups are pretty frequent. Save early, save often! For the record, I've never experienced a lock-up outside of that.

Just to play devil's advocate, one upside of the slot reference system is that you can have the referenced slot number change like any parameter with your snapshots or foot switches. For instance if you have a Bassman and a Plexi in your patch, you can load one 2048 sample IR block and point it at your 4x10 with Jensens for the cleanish Bassman and your 4x12 with Greenbacks for the smoking Plexi. Or whatever. If you find yourself running multiple amps in a patch and you like your 2048 IRs, it's a pretty nice option. Running two separate IR blocks (on the same DSP) would require that you use 1024 sample IRs, as you can only load one 2048. If the IR management system looked at the IRs the way it looks at the amps or cabs or other blocks, then I don't think that could be managed. I'm not arguing that changes to the system shouldn't be made, I voted this one up myself, just saying that there are in fact some merits to the current arrangement. Okay, ONE merit.

Back when I was playing through my Fender Supersonic, I had an orange shag rug which sounded great. It was a little warm for the Atomic CLR though, I found the blue shag sounds much better :lol: